On to w. This is the news live from berlin a search for survivors in indonesia to eight did need tsunami strikes the closer it arrived in the dock off nights without warning bringing devastation to coastal areas the diff toll has time to more than two hundred and is expected to rise as rescuers combed through the rubble hundred small odd injured. Im christine one go out welcome to the program indonesian rescue work has also changed for survivors in the off to math of a devastating tsunami which struck a busy Tourist Region on Saturday Night the official death toll is now Two Hundred Twenty two with more than Eight Hundred people reported injured dozens more are on the concert for that tsunami swept the coastline of the longest straight between sumatra and it was apparently triggered by the eruption off an Island Volcano which santa wall of Water Pressure on to shore. The place where someone used to live now destroyed by the powerful way. Its just one of hundreds of homes and buildings
for more i m joined by robert fice associate professor off natural hazards at the junior take in the united states welcome mystifies what do we know about the cause of this tsunami well it becomes clear now through a satellite imagery that a large chunk of the world can know that through up going slower sliding into the sea that last night creating a very large tsunami how common ought tsunamis that are caused by of a k knows and can we expect a second one. that is a very good question. we really do not know many tsunami generated by volcanic eruptions or associated with a kind of a kind of corruption something most likely kind of corruptions too not in the first order or by the primary process generate. tsunamis but frankl ups is due.